Presenters

Tomasz Adamski (Poland)

Drelicharki and drelicharze (linen traders) from Andrychów in Poland - local community as collective hero of entrepreneurship

Interactive workshop:55 min

Elisa Bailey (Spain)

The good, the bad, and the graffitied: How we (re-)interpret monuments to heroes

Presentation: 25 min

Thomas Hieronymus Bak (Scotland)

John Knox and the women of Scotland: interpreting Scottish heroes through guiding and poetry

Presentation: 55 min

Katia Dianina (USA)

A “Witch from Croatia” in Exile: Rewriting a Folklore Villain into a New Kind of Female Hero

Presentation: 25 min

Marija Dragišić (Serbia)

Mihajlo Pupin: About the time before and after great discoveries

Presentation: 25 min

Maria Fotia (Greece)

Makarios III. A political animal in vestments

Presentation: 25 min

Stuart Frost (UK)

Taking Sir Hans Sloane off his pedestal? Legacies of enslavement and empire at the British Museum

Presentation: 25 min

Kinga Anna Gajda (Poland)

Szymon Kluger: A local hero and the creation of community myths

Presentation: 25 min

Charlotte Giraudo (France)

The challenges of interpreting heroism at sites of memory: can we find a balance between thought provocation and commemoration?

Presentation: 55 min

Lucija Gudlin (Germany)

Joys and challenges of co-creating a learning landscape

Interactive workshop: 1 h 25 min

Małgorzata Hordyniec (Poland)

The man who envied the birds. Interpreting the story of Jan Wnęk - a mid-19th century aviation pioneer.

Presentation: 55 min

Piotr Izdiak (Poland)

How to use the potential of biographies of local heroes for exhibitions that engage the community?

Interactive workshop: 55 min

Luka Jakopčić (Croatia)

Between controversy and experience: Interpreting heritage of the first Croatian president

Presentation: 25 min

Katarzyna Jankowska (Poland)

Her or His Story? - case of Warsaw Ghetto Fighters memorial

Presentation: 25 min

Maria Bożena Kamińska (Poland)

The interpretive method in genocide studies.

Presentation: 25 min

Michal Kepski (Poland)

Non-human heroes and villains: River personhood in Polish heritage discourse since 2022

Presentation: 25 min

Lisa Keys (UK)

Community development through interpretation of an ancient hero

Presentation: 55 min

Dragana Kojičić (Serbia)

Female (anti)heroes in Serbia and the Balkans – fairies and witches, women's processions and rituals

Presentation: 55 min

Jacek Kołodziej (Poland)

Dr Jekyll / Mr Hyde of Polish populist right propaganda: two entwined stories of Tusk and Kaczyński

Presentation: 25 min

Lucia Leca (Romania)

Interpreting heroes: László Székely's imagery in Timișoara's early 20th-century development

Presentation: 25 min

Patrick Lehnes (Germany)

Heritage interpretation re-defined as a ‘meaning-making’ process: What does this mean in practice?

Presentation: 55 min

Thorsten Ludwig (Germany)

Joys and challenges of co-creating a learning landscape

Interactive workshop: 1 h 25 min

Monika Michalek (Poland)

Emotion Networking as a method to work with the controversial heritage

Interactive workshop: 55 min

Nigel Mills (UK)

National heroes, empires and nation states in Europe

Presentation: 25 min

Community development through interpretation of an ancient hero

Presentation: 55 min

 

Aleksandra Momčilović Jovanović (Serbia)

Faces of national and discrete heroes of Yugoslavia - a shift in museum's narratives

Presentation: 25 min

Florentina Murea-Matache (Romania)

Interpreting heroes: László Székely's imagery in Timișoara's early 20th-century development

Presentation: 55 min

Eleonora Narvselius (Sweden)

Bandera Reaffirmed: Scrutinizing lessons of a nationalist symbol in struggling Ukraine

Presentation: 55 min

Shelley-Anne Peleg (Israel)

Who defeated Napoleon Bonaparte in his unsuccessful attempt to conquer Akko (Israel) during his war campaign to the East?

Presentation: 25 min

Anna Pikula (Poland)

Turning a glacier into an athlete. How to explain complex phenomena through an exhibition character

Presentation: 25 min

Kristýna Pinkrová (Czech Republic)

Kozina and Lomikar: Heroes at the crossroads of history.

Presentation: 25 min

Ladislav Ptáček (Czech Republic)

Victims of heroes? Victims of murderers

Presentation: 25 min

Ana Radovanac Živanov (Serbia)

Heroes / interpreters of the memory of old Belgrade: The house of Jevrem Grujić – Museum of Serbian history, diplomacy, art, and Avant-Garde

Presentation: 25 min

Jadwiga Rodowicz-Czechowska (Poland)

Polish heroes as described by a Japanese for the Japanese in years after World War I

Presentation: 55 min

Roxana-Talida Roman (Romania)

The Romanian peasant symbolically immortalized in the traditional/national costume

Presentation: 25 min

Olga Tarczyńska-Polus (Poland)

Turning a glacier into an athlete. How to explain complex phenomena through an exhibition character

Presentation: 25 min

Eva Sandberg (Sweden)

The nature boost – Swedish collaboration on communication for the Global Biodiversity Plan.

Interactive workshop: 55 min

Iva Silla (Croatia)

Blind Badasses - turning tales of historical underdogs into interpretive experiences

Presentation: 25 min

Steve Slack (UK)

A Change of Heart at Blackburn Museum

Presentation: 25 min

Valya Stergioti (Greece)

Joys and challenges of co-creating a learning landscape

Interactive workshop: 1 h 25 min

Gerda Stevenson (Scotland)

John Knox and the women of Scotland: interpreting Scottish heroes through guiding and poetry

Presentation: 55 min

Barbara Struys (Belgium)

The search for the universal 'mothering soul' through the story of one motherless mother

Presentation: 55 min

Teresa Josephine Sweeney Meade (Ireland)

The dead are very near...an Irish Story

Presentation: 25 min

Lucy Taylor (France)

The challenges of interpreting heroism at sites of memory: can we find a balance between thought provocation and commemoration?

Presentation: 25 min

Philipp P. Thapa (Germany)

Breaking bad in the museum: The ethics of antiheroic interpretation

Presentation: 55 min

Laura Time (Romania)

Heritage and the city: Who are the heroes of our urban narratives?

Presentation: 25 min

Mateusz Tomaszczyk (Poland)

Facilitation approach in the work of an IE trainer

Interactive workshop: 55 min

The man who envied the birds. Interpreting the story of Jan Wnęk - a mid-19th century aviation pioneer.

Presentation: 55 min

Vanessa Vaio (Italy)

Joys and challenges of co-creating a learning landscape

Interactive workshop: 1 h 25 min

Ondřej Vitek (Czech Republic)

See-Think-Do-Share concept: Good criterion to define target groups

Presentation: 25 min

Sebastian Wacięga (Poland)

Drelicharki and drelicharze (linen traders) from Andrychów in Poland - local community as collective hero of entrepreneurship

Interactive workshop: 55 min

Mark Wallis (UK)

"No more Heroes Anymore!"

Presentation: 25 min

Katarina Živanović (Serbia)

Rethink revolutionary art

Presentation: 25 min